Loading of sewer pipe, building tile, etc., for railway shipment



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v'LOADING OF SEWER PIPE, BUILDING TILE, ETC., FOR RAILWAY SHIPMENT Filed June 25, 1951 mmmmllmlllmmg# iiliii gggggggggglly liiiiiiiiiaamm A All? '@mwd UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE LOADING 0F SEWER 1 ETC.,

FOR RAILWAY PIPE, BUILDING TILE,

SHIPMENT Ivan I-I. Spoor, La Grange, Ill., assignor to The Gerrard Company, Inc.,

ration of Delaware Application June 25,

Chicago, Ill., a corpo- 1931, Serial No. 546,747

8 Claims. (Cl. 1054-367) This invention has to do with the loading of sewer pipe in railway cars, and is particularly concerned with the way in which the pipe is ar ranged and secured within the car.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved way of car, whereby to facilitate loadbreakage of the pipe in transit.

the pipe within the ing and reduce arranging and securing The method of the invention is especially applicable to the larger sizes of sewer pipe, but may also be employed with the smaller sizes, and with other objects of generally similar method is easy to employ,

be used to materially reduce the loss and 'can character. The costs little to practice,

ordinarily occasioned by breakage.

While the foregoing statements are indicative in a general way of the nature of the invention,

other objects and advantages will be apparent to those skilled in the art upon a full understanding of the improved load arrangement.

Three slightly different load arrangements em.

bodying the invention Way of illustration, but

are presented herein by it will of course be understood that the invention is capable of being embodied in other modified forms coming equally within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a horizontal section through a railway car, showing sewer pipe loaded in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the car, taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. l, showing the load in side elevation;

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section through the car, taken o-n the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, showing the load in end elevation;

the car shown in Fig.

4 is a view corresponding to Fig. l, showing arrangement which also ansverse section through 4, showing the modified load in end elevation; and

Fig. 6 shows, in end elevation, a load arrangement which is somewhat similar to that shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive.

The load arrangement shown in Figs. l to 3 inelusive will rst be described. As will be observed in these views, the car sewer pipe II of rather pipe are all placed on end and The sections of Il) is loaded with bell-end large and squatty form.

are grouped into a long generally rectangular lower deck formation I2 and two short generally rectangular upper deck formations I3 and I4. The ends I5 of the lower deck are spaced a short distance from the ends ends I'I of the upper the ends I5 of the lower I6 of the car. The outer decks are set in a little from deck, while the inner ends I8 of the upper decks are separated somewhat from each other.

The sections of pipe in the lower deck I2 are preferably arranged in rows which extend both transversely and longitudinally of the car'. Each of the sections in each row is preferably positioned with the bell end thereof in contact with the spigot ends of the adjacent sections The lower ends of the sections are preferably supported clear of the car floor on a number of boards I9 which extend longitudinally of the car. The sections in the lower deck are bound tightly together, top and bottom, by tensioned bands 20, which bands are preferably connected at intervals by spacing members 2|.

After the lower deck I2 has been completed, several boards 22 are placed thereon longitudinally of the car and the sections of pipe for the two short upper decks I3 and I4 are then placed on the boards 22. The boards 22 are preferably maintained in properly spaced relation to-each other by transversely extending cleats 22 at the ends of the boards. The sections in each of the upper decks are arranged and bound together in substantially the same manner as the sections in the lower deck.

During transit, the entire load is free to shift longitudinally of the car as a unit under severe 25 impacts, and the upper decks are also free to shift with respect to the lower supporting deck on the boards 22. The weight of the load, however, will prevent any substantial movement under all but the most sever impacts. If desired, several cleats 30 23 may-be fastened to the ends I6 of the car at appropriate heights to serve as limiting abutments for the upper and lower decks should the load by any chance shift that far in the car.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the lower deck 24 is made up in the same way as the lower deck in the form already described, and the upper deck 25 is made up in substantially the same way as the lower deck 24. Both decks are preferably coextensive in size and 40 are confined between two end gates 26, which gates are spaced from the ends of the car. I'he wires 2'I with which the sections of pipe in the lower deck 24 are bound together pass about the end gates and the wires 28 with which the sections in the upper deck are bound together likewise pass about the end gates.

Instead of having the wires 21 and 28 extend the full lengths of the decks, from one end of the load to the other, such wires may be passed through the decks and returned, the wires in engagement with the left hand end gate being passed through the decks beyond the center of the latter at 29 and the wires in engagement with the right hand end gate being lapped with the other wires for a distance at the center of the load and passed through the decks at 30. This overlapping double loop arrangement of the wires ties in the sections of pipe quite securely at the door locations 3| and also divides up the strain on the wires.

in that row. 5

grouped together more compactly by resting the spigot ends 32 of alternate sections on the shoulders provided by the bell ends 33 of the adjoining sections. As in the load shown in Figs. l toy 3 inclusive, the sections in the upper deck are placed upon longitudinally extending planks 34 which the load.

I claim: 1. The method of loading elongated objects,

such as sewer pipe, building tile and the like, for

one another.

2. The method of loading elongated objects, such ing longitudinally extending boards on the oor of the car, placing a large number of the objects on end on the boards in side-by-side relation to each other in an elongated deck formation spaced from the ends of the car, with the objects merely restbeing fastened down a unit load which is shiftable as a unit longitudinally of the boards, said bound objects being shiftable as a unit along the oor of the car.

5. The method of loading bell-end sewer pipe and also being shiftable as separate units relative to one another.

7. The method of such as sewer loading elongated objects, pipe, building tile connecting' the boards together at their ends, and constructing another similarly bound deck of the objects on top of the boards, the upper and lower tiers being shiftable as an entire group with re spect to the oor of the car and ing all of the objects in the deck together with longitudinally extending binders, placing longitudinally extending boards on top of such lower per deck being shiftable both with the lower deck and independently thereof.

IVAN H. SPOOR. 

